Example sentences of "as [adv] [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then , it has been as keenly followed as many full-length TV programmes . |
| 2 | Her emotions were as confusingly mingled as the child 's expressions laid one over another . |
| 3 | Few sites can have been as intensively studied as this one , and indeed few sites are as amenable to exhaustive study as is a domestic garden . |
| 4 | Dead Certain had been as badly affected as any , but Elsworth simply would not run a horse of that class in such a race unless he believed it was capable of giving of its best . |
| 5 | There was even some downturn in Japan , though Wedgwood remains the leading imported brand and was not as badly affected as many other luxury goods businesses . |
| 6 | One , who did not appear to be as badly scorched as the others , stood his ground , and eyed the Robemaker rather challengingly . |
| 7 | Smith obviously assumed that someone as badly dressed as himself could not possible be in a group and wondered why he was in the dressing room . |
| 8 | ‘ I have never seen a King as badly dressed as you were ! ’ |
| 9 | If her hip and knee and ankle are as badly damaged as I hope — I mean as they could be — she 'll be unable to take herself up or down the stairs . |
| 10 | But Cnut was considerably more fortunate in the sources produced within 150 years of his death , for the explosion of literary activity which began shortly after the Norman Conquest , and which was to ensure that no future reign would be as badly documented as those of Cnut and his sons , also cast its light back to his period . |
| 11 | Mr Thompson said that what marked out the drift to recession was that the service sector would be as badly hit as manufacturing at least , and possibly worse affected , unlike in the recession of 1981 . |
| 12 | Managers were as badly hit as shop floor workers and the full breakdown of redundancies was : |
| 13 | He sees a specialist tomorrow but the club are optimistic that he is not as badly hurt as first feared . |
| 14 | He was n't as badly hurt as he looked , actually , but it was enough to make us all think at least twice . |
| 15 | ‘ Maybe he was n't as badly hurt as he looked . ’ |
| 16 | This may be a particular segment or sector of the environment or it may be as intensely focused as the search for a particular piece of information . |
| 17 | For once the little gate was locked , but she quickly pulled back the stone bolt and slipped outside , drawing the gate closed but not relocking it : she would need to be as little delayed as possible if she were to get back unnoticed , and the first servants rose early , at the ninth hour of night . |
| 18 | The business constituency not only wants to be as little burdened as possible with the costs of complying with regulation , it is also critical of what it sees as inordinate amounts of money being spent on pollution control by bloated , publicly-funded organizations . |
| 19 | The tomb shows how the aesthetes of the age of Safdarjung liked their gateways to be as ornately sculpted as their prose was purple ; how they preferred their onion domes to be overextended and tapered ; how they thought the interior of a tomb incomplete unless covered with a rococo riot of elaborate plasterwork . |
| 20 | ‘ We regard it as a very satisfactory half year , bearing in mind that the world 's economies are not quite as clear cut as they were a year ago . |
| 21 | ‘ We regard it as a very satisfactory half year , bearing in mind that the world 's economies are not quite as clear cut as they were a year ago . |
| 22 | However , the concept of disease is not as clear cut as the above definition implies . |
| 23 | Despite the attempt to impose a rigid status system , the division between farmers and warriors was never as clear cut as intended . |
| 24 | Looking first at the Labour Party , its doctrine or beliefs are now by no means as clear cut as when the party constitution was adopted in 1918 . |
| 25 | Further developments , which apply ‘ fuzzy logic ’ ( Gaines and Shaw , 1985 ) or ‘ fuzzy truth ’ ( Massaro , 1986 ) to the way in which judgments are rated , are particularly relevant in the appraisal of art where responses are not always as clear cut as present methods demand . |
| 26 | It seems probable that rebellion in East Anglia was as rigorously suppressed as in Kent . |
| 27 | Collecting up a knapsack which contained a few beach things , Liza and Celia went to the bottom of the garden and began their descent , one which was not quite as successfully negotiated as when Edna was in charge . |
| 28 | One deduction from this could have been that property should be as widely dispersed as possible , to enlarge the bounds of the citizen body . |
| 29 | Other forms which are available , if not as widely used as those of the JCT , are published by the ACA and by the FAS . |
| 30 | Follow-up studies revealed that the rice-salt solution was not as widely used as the lobon-gur solution . |